Two Human MARs Effectively Increase Transgene Expression in Transfected CHO Cells

Overview

Journal J Cell Mol Med

Specialties Cell Biology
Molecular Biology

Date 2018 Nov 20

PMID 30450759

Citations 8

Authors

Qin Li

Chun-Peng Zhao

Yan Lin

Chao Song

Fang Wang

Tian-Yun Wang

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Abstract

Matrix attachment regions (MARs) can enhance the expression level of transgene in Chinese hamster ovaries (CHO) cell expression system. However, improvements in function and analyses of the mechanism remains unclear. In this study, we screened two new and more functional MAR elements from the human genome DNA. The human MAR-3 and MAR-7 element were cloned and inserted downstream of the polyA site in a eukaryotic vector. The constructs were transfected into CHO cells, and screened under G418 to produce the stably transfected cell pools. The expression levels and stability of enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP) were detected by flow cytometry. The transgene copy number and transgene expression at mRNA level were detected by quantitative real-time PCR. The results showed that the expression level of eGFP of cells transfected with MAR-containing vectors were all higher than those of the vectors without MARs under transient and stably transfection. The enhancing effect of MAR-7 was higher than that of MAR-3. Additionally, we found that MAR significantly increased eGFP copy numbers and eGFP gene mRNA expression level as compared with the vector without. In conclusion, MAR-3 and MAR-7 gene can promote the expression of transgene in transfected CHO cells, and its effect may be related to the increase of the number of copies.

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